I’ve been working on an idea for a new class/club I’d like to offer: an improvisational piecing class where each month we work on a different kind of improvisational piecing. If people really liked a particular technique they could make a small (like a table runner or baby quilt) or larger top using that technique,… Continue Reading

After a whirlwind trip that started/ended in not getting to bed until after 2 AM in both directions, I’m back and sort of recovered from Liam’s Junior Recital at the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN! He sounded great, and he was so self confident and sure of himself that I really… Continue Reading

Leaving town for a few days takes so much work!!!! I had to get a ton of grading done, and work ahead on assignments etc. so that I can not think about school while I’m in Nashville for Liam’s Junior Recital! I also needed to have the next FMQ Club pattern printed and ready to… Continue Reading

I’ve been swamped, barely getting the Candied Fabrics things done that MUST get done, with no time for anything else, including blogging. But I thought I’d share a couple pix I took for the article I was working on last week, enjoy! Continue Reading

Last week Logan and I spent 5 days in the Pacific Northwest looking at 3 colleges. 2 were busts, so I won’t mention them, but the one school that has been his favorite since we discovered it last Fall is Cornish College of the Arts, and it was just as awesome and perfect for him… Continue Reading

My Spring Break went by in a FLASH! Logan and I spent several days in the Pacific Northwest looking at colleges, and then once I returned I had to help hubby throw a dinner party for Gene Pokorny (tuba player for the Chicago Symphony) as he was premiering a concerto written for him by Lalo… Continue Reading